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Upper Cook Inlet Commercial Fishing Announcement No. 16 opens drift gillnetting in the Expanded Kenai and Expanded Kasilof sections of the Upper Subdistrict and in the Anchor Point Section of the Lower Subdistrict (Figure 1) on Monday, July 18, 2016 from 5:00 a.m. until 7:00 a.m. This announcement also opens drift gillnetting in all waters … + read more

Upper Cook Inlet Commercial Fishing Announcement No. 14 opens commercial salmon fishing with set gillnets in the Kenai, Kasilof, and East Foreland sections of the Upper Subdistrict from 9:00 a.m. until 12:00 midnight on Saturday, July 16, 2016. Drift gillnetting will be opened in the Expanded Kenai and Expanded Kasilof sections of the Upper Subdistrict … + read more

Upper Cook Inlet Commercial Fishing Announcement No. 12 extends commercial salmon fishing with set gillnets in the Kenai, Kasilof, and East Foreland sections of the Upper Subdistrict from 7:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. on Thursday, July 14, 2016. Drift gillnetting will be opened in the Expanded Kenai and Expanded Kasilof sections of the Upper Subdistrict … + read more

Kenai Late-Run Kings Strong July king counts to date have come as a welcome relief to Kenai area fishers and fishery managers. Numbers bolstered confidence in the preseason forecast for a much improved run from the past few years. At the normal 15 percent point in the season, the sonar count of 6,416 as of … + read more